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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I wouldn't call those far left at all personally. authoritarianism and fascism are blanketly not leftist systems of government

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The concept of a tankie is a person with the cognitive dissonance necessary to both have majority leftist ideology yet still believe in and support authoritarian governments

[–] needthosepylons 7 points 4 months ago

In my country, we simply call them "authoritarian communists" or, still today, "stals", for "stalinists".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Right, my above comment was a bit disjointed. The vocabulary gets a bit vague when it comes to putting a political spectrum on a 1D axis.

My concern with my comment is that I wouldn't know where to put, e.g., the Chinese government on the political axis. It's both communist-like yet authoritarian.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

haha You're all right. I think something like the Chinese government is definitely one of the more difficult ones. It has its roots in communism, but at this point it's very much a capitalist autocracy with high social investment and surveillance. authoritarian for aure

[–] BlameTheAntifa 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

China is right wing. In the extreme. They have centralized authority with strong top-down hierarchies. There is nothing leftist about them in the least.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

in fact, left stand for equality and right stand for liberty. That's all.

[–] BlameTheAntifa 3 points 1 month ago

This makes no sense. Those are the same thing. You do not have one without the other. The right is about neither. The right is purely “do what we say”. Nothing more and nothing less.